Sweet By-And-By
Pig Iron Theater
OBIE Award-winning Pig Iron Theatre Company teams up with Swedish Teater Sláva to create this all-acoustic whistle-stop tour of America in a time of union martyrs, Seventh-Day Adventists, and lost souls. A forerunner of Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, and Billy Bragg, Joe Hill was a Swedish immigrant, well known on California picket lines as a union organizer and radical songwriter. Sweet By-and-By features Hill’s wickedly funny songs on banjo and concertina, while following his journey from Sweden to California to a Utah jail, and on up to Mars, where all good union leaders go to die. MORE
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Beauty Is
Hotel Obligado Physical Theatre
Theater, 55 minutes
Hotel Obligado begins its 2008-2009 season by bringing recent favorite, Beauty Is, to the Festival. Voted one of the Top Ten Productions of 2007 by the Philadelphia Weekly, Beauty Is is an intensely physical journey, inspired by the use of crystal meth in the gay community. MORE
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Vampire Lesbians of Sodom
To the Wall Productions
Theater, 70 minutes
From the Drag Queen of Camp comes the hilarious love story of two lusty vamps that love the spotlight, but hate each other. Their rivalry for fame and juicy virgins endures for over 2000 years: from ancient Sodom, to 1920s Hollywood, to modern day Vegas. TTW re-imagines this off-Broadway hit! MORE